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Louise Roe

BIO

Louise Roe is a TV host and fashion journalist, who hosts Plain Jane on MTV International, a reality makeover show which airs in 66 countries. She hosts Fit For Fashion, a reality competition series airing on Fox Asia. Last year, she hosted NBC’s hit competition show, Fashion Star, and co-hosted Style network’s first ever LIVE show, Style Pop.

Roe is currently writing her first non-fiction book, Front Roe, set for release in Spring 2015. She has contributed to and been featured in numerous publications, including Glamour magazine (where she served as Fashion Editor at Large), People Style Watch (where currently serves as a fashion council member), Vogue.com (where she served as News Editor and host of VogueTV), In Style UK, Elle UK, Us Weekly, Cosmopolitan UK, Lucky, Mens Health UK, Huffington Post, and StylistPick, among others.

Born in the UK but based in LA, she was the host of VogueTV, BBC’s documentary Addicted to Boob Jobs and long-standing style series The Clothes Show, before moving stateside five years ago.
Roe is a regular fashion correspondent on the red carpet during awards season. She co-hosted Access Hollywood’s Golden Globes and Oscars coverage this year, ABC’s live pre-Oscars show in 2012, (a show that drew an audience of over 30m viewers), and also the red carpet at MTV International’s Movie Awards, VMA’s and EMA’s for three years running.

Additionally, she co-hosted E!’s live coverage of the Royal Wedding. As a cast member of MTV’s The City, Roe put her fashion journalism skills to use, hosting trend videos and designer interviews for Elle.com. She has fronted modeling campaigns for Adidas, Italian fashion label Hogan, Reiss and Bloomingdales, and has appeared on Britain’s Next Top Model, E!’s Chelsea Lately, NBC’s The Nate Berkus Show, GMTV, Project Catwalk, Style Network’s How Do I Look, 10 Things I Hate About Me, and Make Me a Supermodel. Louise launched her namesake clothing line for retail giant HSN, designed to flatter women’s curves, no matter their shape or size. Additionally, she designs a successful shoes and accessories line for European online retailer StylistPick.com.

Roe has worked as an ambassador for global brands including Maybelline, Express, Range Rover, Chandon, Macy’s, Marks&Spencer, Gap’s Piperlime, Bebe, Sears, Alfa Romeo and Littlewoods (the UK’s third largest online retailer).
She fronts MTV’s ‘Bullied’, a campaign to stop bullying in schools across the globe, she frequently visits high schools in California to talk to teenage girls on behalf of the charity ‘Step Up’, an organization which educates, supports and inspires young women to follow their chosen career path. She also supports the charity Dressed For Success, and is an honorary fellow at Southampton’s Solent University where she lectures fashion students twice a year.